Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Behind every bunch of good men, you're sure to find a bunch of good women! At right are some of the ladies that pitched in to help make a successful Waitsburg's Annual Lions Club Rib Feed held last Saturday evening in the Don Thomas Building at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds. Club Treasurer Kevin House said the group raises approximately $15,000 each year, that is used to meet needs right here, in the community. See more photos on Last Page....
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg Celebration Days, held the third weekend each May, is just around the corner. The weekend, May 19-21, promises fun for everyone, with a parade, car show, brewfest, bonfire, ATV events, food, dancing, vendors, live music, and fun and games. Friday Celebration Days will kick off on Friday at 4:30 p.m. with the second annual Historic ATV Sunset Cruise, organized by Andy and Denise Winnett. The guided cruise takes Saturday’s poker ride route in reverse, with stops at historical...
DAYTON – The Dayton School District has hired a K-12 school counselor, to start next fall. Susan Stege is a certified school counselor with experience in individual and group counseling, and in working with parents. Stege graduated from the University of Oregon, and Portland State University. She also holds a teaching certificate in Art. She worked in the Chandler Arizona School District from 2002-2015 and is a recent arrival to the Walla Walla Valley. Tracy Pearson is the new wood/ag teacher i...
DAYTON – Filing for 2017 elections in Columbia and Walla Walla Counties will open next week. Positions are open for Dayton and Starbuck city councils, Dayton, Waitsburg and Starbuck school boards, local fire districts, Columbia County Hospital District and the Port of Columbia. Candidates may file at the appropriate county auditor’s office from Monday through Friday next week. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Candidates may also file online at the county auditors’ websites. Online filing has already opened. For more information, contact...
Margie Goddard Burns, of Dayton, passed away on April 23, 2017 at the age of 74 years. Margie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 19, 1942. Margie moved to Wilbur, WA, in 1974 and raised her three children there. She held many jobs: waitress, cook, assistant to a CPA, church secretary, carpenter. She loved to fish and camp with her children and friends. Margie moved to Walla Walla in 1985 and worked in various nursing homes and as a caregiver. In 2008, Margie moved to Dayton. She cooked meals...
Marian Whipple finished her earthly journey on April 10, 2017, at the age of 91. She was born in Anaheim, California on May 21, 1925, the only child of Lewis Marion and IsalenePickel. While in elementary school, Marian started taking piano lessons. By the time she was in high school, she was accompanying individuals and school groups on the piano. She graduated from Anaheim Union High School in 1943, and earned a bachelor's degree in music (organ emphasis) in 1947 and a master's degree in music...
Gladys Lee Crabb Ferguson was born October 10, 1929, in St.John, Washington to Bernard Vincent Crabb and Minnie Melissa Bell Billingsly Crabb. She was the sixth of eight children. She moved to Starbuck, Washington as an infant and attended Starbuck schools. Gladys married Richard J. Ferguson, from Missouri, on November 20, 1947. Richard and Gladys moved to Bertha, Missouri where their son, Rick was born. They returned to Columbia County and lived on farms in the Fields Gulch and Alto areas. Their daughter, Gwynneth, was born in Dayton in 1950....
Ten Years Ago May 17, 2007 Hey pard, folks around Waitsburg are as pleased as a pup with two tails that the 94th running of the Days of Real Sport is this weekend. Town is spruced up and ready to entertain friends and neighbors from near and far with the parade and the two days of Quarterhorse and thoroughbred horse racing, and plenty of after-hours fun is planned. But wait! Things don’t get really rollin’ until Friday night at the DRS Kick Off Dinner and Dance, with music by Little McKay Creek Band. That’s when the queen is chosen from the t...
WAITSBURG - Community members are invited to attend a send-off for Bob Brock as he begins his Patriotic Jeep Tour, on Sat., May 13 at 9 a.m. at Town Hall. Learn more at the Patriot Jeep page on Facebook....
DAYTON – TVAC Productions will hold an informational meeting for this year’s fall musical, The King & I, on May 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Liberty Theater. Anyone interested in participating, on stage or behind the scenes, is encouraged to attend. Auditions will be held in early June. The Rodgers and Hammerstein hit has been wildly popular as both a long-running Broadway hit and an Academy Award winning field. TVAC is sponsoring a screening of the 1956 film at 7 p.m. on Thurs., May 18. Admission is free and open to the public....
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Commercial Club will meet Tues., May 16 at Waitsburg Town Hall to recognize the 2017 Community Service recipienta and Business of the Year. Tickets may be purchased at www.eventbrite.com or at the door. If purchasing at the door please RSVP to waitsburcc@icloud.com Tickets are $20/person for soup, salad, bread, dessert, wine/beer/coffee/ice tea. Additional wine or beer will be available for donation....
WALLA WALLA – Providence St. Mary Medical Center, will offer free sports physicals in the Walla Walla High School gym from 3-7 p.m. No appointments are needed. Physicals will be offered to students in grades six through 11, from all area schools. Students under age 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian or bring a signed release that can be downloaded at www.providence.org/stmaryfoundation. For more information call Britt Adkins at (509) 526-8633....
May 12: Katy Leid, Erin Dutton, Kazmira Grende, Jonathan Abbey. May 13: Lola Spirotas, Terry Bloor, Kevin Moormann, Jack Gawith and Lavina Meyer. May 14: Daniel Thomas Reese, Marge Tabor, Maggie Pietila, Lynna Larsen, Lee Fisk, Marilyn Robert, Barbara Wood, Suzie Payne, Debbie Fisher, Brian McKenzie and Alison Huwe. May 15: Pete Rohde, Charlie McCown, Tiffney Hawks, Bryce Scott and Ron Standring. May 16: Gladys Cadruvi, Helen Hall, Bobbie Jean Thomas, Sherrie Land, Genny Menino. May 17: William Keith, Sally Geiger, Kurt Wittman, Elizabeth...
Hearing late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional monologue this week about his son’s condition and his family’s experience in the moments after his birth, I had a flashback to the day my son was born and we learned he had Down syndrome. My husband and I had a lot of questions about Cole’s future.Whether he’d have health care shouldn’t have had to be one of them. When you’re facing years of doctor’s appointments, you want to know that having a preexisting condition,such as an extra 21st chromosome or a heart defect, won’t prevent you or yo...
It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about Donald Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence. In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.” Because Trump is syntactically challenged, it was possibl...
WALLA WALLA – Approximately 320 people attended Columbia REA's 79th annual meeting at College Place High School in April 20. New board member, Neil Carpenter of Waitsburg, was elected to represent District 3, while Greg Knowles of Walla Walla (Dist. 1), and Vic Parks of Burgank (Dist. 2) were each re-elected. According to a CREA news release, a record number of ballots were cast in the election, with 650 members voting. Jennifer Warren, of Dayton, received one of three academic scholarships awar...
Members of the Waitsburg Garden Club were busy planting the Main Street planters this year. Members welcome passers-by to keep the planters looking lovely by deadheading plants as they walk by and request that everyone clean up after their dogs if they make use of the Main Street tree bases. The garden club welcomes everyone to help in planting and maintaining the planters each year. Garden Club President Susan Donegan says the Main Street plantings were the first club event this year.She said...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg 4-H Corral Wranglers and the 4-H Penpals recently held a friendly but competitive food drive last week, bringing in a total of 815 pounds of non-perishables to the Waitsburg Resource Center. "I took the scale to the Lion's Building to weigh the food, expecting about 80 pounds, and was overwhelmed to see what they had collected," said WRC board chair Pam Conover. In addition to poundage, the teams received extra points for frequently needed items such as dish soap and t...
DAYTON - Dayton residents attended an Envision Dayton 2039 workshop, sponsored by the city last week at St. Joseph’s Parish Hall. The purpose of the workshop was to survey residents about what they like about Dayton, what should be retained, and what new ideas, or goals, they would like to see implemented in the next twenty years. Data gathered from the surveys will help the city in its 2019 Comprehensive Plan update. People who were unable to attend the workshops can still provide input to the city, by filling out a questionnaire at: at w...
DAYTON – Dayton’s Best Western Plus Hotel and Suites received the Champion Customer Care Award at the Best Western Hotels and Resorts’ District II meeting, held in Vancouver, B.C. last week. The honor was given to properties demonstrating exceptional levels of service and care. Hotels must also meet quality and design standards and other membership requirements in order to quality....
DAYTON – The Boldman family's 1934 Chevrolet Master Deluxe, a six-cyclinder, four-door sedan, has returned to Dayton, and has been reunited with its original license plates, car inspection report, and registration paperwork. The car and some of its original items were separated when Gladys Boldman sold the car in 1977. The car was originally purchased on March 28, 1934, by S.A. Boldman, and was driven by him and members of his family, according to Sylvia Beuhler, the Boldman House Museum D...
DAYTON—Dayton school superintendent Doug Johnson gave a report at last week’s school board meeting about the Dayton School District’s community visioning strategic priorities. He said that all staff will meet in the auditorium after school on May 16 to discuss the strategic priorities, after which public meetings about the top three strategic priorities will be scheduled. Johnson also reported that the district is supporting a book study for all staff and school board members. Based on Carol...
Last week, the Columbia County Commissioners approved a plan to shift census block # 25, which is located in Commissioners' Voting Precinct No. 1, to Commissioners' Voting Precinct No. 3, in order to solve a state requirement that precinct boundaries for voting precincts run contiguously. There had been a break between Star and Mustard voting precincts....
DAYTON - Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared for weather shifts on Saturday for a short excursion with the Columbia Basin Chapter of the Washington State Native Plant Society for field identification. Darcy Dauble will guide attendees through the identification of local plants and discuss the work that WSNPS is doing tohelp preserve native populations. Participants will meet at the library at 9 a.m. for a presentation before carpooling to a nearby location to perform in-the-field plant identification.. Also this month, the Friends of the...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident Trevor Johnson is putting his army experience to use, operating a new tow truck business, while he furthers his education. The bright green wrecker, with "Johnson Family Towing" emblazoned on the side, is up, running, and ready to go. Johnson recently left his job at The McGregor Company in order to take advantage of the GI Bill to further his education. With over 16 years experience in the army as a recovery specialist (tow truck operator) and diesel mechanic, he...
